It appears to have a heavy, Sanghelios ruin/arena aesthetic… Awesome, this is very cool… but can you guess what else does? The newest addition to the Warzone map pool. Those central ruins and arenas… and I am worried that rather than craft an all-new original map around this type of environment/aesthetic, it will be heavily copy/pasted from these environments we’ve already seen.
It’s the 343 way when it comes to H5’s design. I really hope they’re building something all-new, completely from scratch, and really putting some thought into it, like dedicated Arena maps require and deserve. You’re catering to a more hardcore, dedicated group of gamers in the Arena scene 343… we expect more than what we’ve gotten up to this point. Most of the Arena maps, are overall, very good, but even some of the good ones have issues in feeling too similar at times to their remix counterparts with the copy/pasted repetitive environments and layouts.
About 50-65% of the remixes/additional maps were satisfactory IMO… the others felt quite lazy or uninspired… and I’m seeing potential for another copy/paste job with this upcoming map and hope it ends up feeling highly original.